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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
A MOVE OF SOME MEANING
The Capital City Company Formally Ac-
cepts the Natural-Gas Ordinance.
What the Officers Say as to Their Intention
The Board of Trade Governors Propose
Plans for Supplying Gas.

The natural gas question took precedence or
everything in the way of street talk yesterday.
The views remained as various as they were at
the beginning. although many men who hereto
fore have strongly opposed any modification of
the ordinance have come around to point OF
concession as to an advance in prices Howev-
CT, they turn their criticism other features of
the ordinance submitted by the Indianapolis
Natural-gas Company Aldermen and council
men are non-committa, to some extent but the
opinions of some of them as to changing the
schedule of prices have materially changed. By
Monday afternoon it is supposed that every
councilman will be prepared to come to the COM
mittee of the whole with his reasons for the po-
sition he may take, either for against the or
dinance
Yesterday afternoon the directors of the Cap
ital City Company held meeting at which the
relation their company bears to the question of
early piping was discussed at length. Il ended
in the adoption of resolution to accept the Or
dinance passed June 81 together with ..all it's
provisions, Instructions stipuations, require
ments and regulations" But in anticipation Of
a change in the ordinance the following was
incorporated in the resolution: 'And
should there hereafter be passed any
general or special ordinance of said city, grant
ing to any corporation firm any rights or
privileges concerning tho SALE use piping of
natural gas in said city, this company reserves
the right accept the same and be entitled to
it's benefits" At o'clock. last evening, in
accordance with the instructions of the direct
ors, the president and secretary of the company,
d. III. Wiles and Stanton j. Peele, went to the
city clerks Office and formally accepted the
terms of the old ordinance.
When asked if the company could give any
definite promises as to when it could begin the
work of piping Mr.. Wiles said I'VE have four
good wells ready and there four more under
contract One of them will be in next week and
the rest will follow rapidly. I not say
actly when begin work, but certainly
not until all the wells in which at the furth-
est will be within thirty days"
Mr.. Peelle remarked that the sixty days clause
in the ordinance, requiring the work of piping
to begin within that time, kept the company
from accepting it until the directors knew what
they could rely to a supply. I'VE think
we have that point settled he continued, land
when these four wells come in will be ready
to pipe to the city. We have options pipes.
and are otherwise prepared to carry out our
plans"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
Joe Jefferson Wins.

Quite crowd of horsemen witnessed the trottng
race between Joe jefferson and Stoker at the fair
grounds yesterday afternoon The by
Jefferson in three straight heats. Time 1856, 2:37 Z
andZ
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
Notes Regarding Gas Matters.

The Broad Ripple Naturalgas Company do
not think they have received notice IN accord
ance with the magnitude of their discoveries,
and proposition to write the Board Of Trade,
CITY Council and Aldermen to visit their wells is
being entertained.
The Citizens Natural-gas Company, of
Eaton Ind, has filed it's articles with the Secre-
tary of State The capital stock is So. 0OO The
directors Henry Wittamyer. John w.
Long, George w. Carter, Eli Fooman. Daniel
Emdee. John D. Morris and Zachariah Youngs.
There large and interesting meeting of
citizens at the Second ward engine house last
evening for the purpose of discussing the merits
of the ordinance offered by the Indianapolis
to supply the city with gas by jan 1. Ex-
Mayor j. L. McMaster presided, and Jas. P.
Baker acted as secretary. 1t was unanimously
decided to request the Council to approve of the
ordinance
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
Attempted Murder and Suicides

New YORK, Oct 22-Adam Boyer, German
butcher made attempt TO kill his wife and four
year-old child with large knife early this morning.
After short struggle the mother and child escaped
without injury, but tho father in his fury, cut his
throat and was dead in a few minutes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.
concluded from Fifth Page. |

Mrs. McMurtrie has returned from Washington :.
Miss Anna Morton is home from Springfield Miss
kittie Strong of Chicago is guest of her mother in
this city Mr.. and Mrs Greenoueh. who
guests of Dr. Cushing have returned to Deerfed.
Mass Arthur Rice and wife, of st. Paul visited
Champaign relatives recently. Miss Abbie Hail. a
teacher in the Chicago schools spent Sunday last in
this city Miss Jessie NJ Richards. who has just re-
turned from Europe, guest of her sister, Mrs.
Ed Bailey, last week. Miss Esse Dana, of Chicago,
will spend the winter here and assist Prof. Koss---.
DR.. o. M. Baird has Chicago to reside The
Ladies' Art Club has elected the following officers for
the ensuing year: President Mrs H. Swannell; vice
president, Mrs. E. Snyder; secretary, Mrs. Ell. FL.
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Marshall.

Mrs III. E. Manley. of Terre Haute, returned homo
Monday from q visit with friends Mrs. Edward l..
hote, of Milford, has returned home Mrs q. w.
Prewett nas returned home from extended visit
with southern Illinois relatives and friends Mrs
Betty Lille. of Bourbon county. Kentucky. is visiting
the family of John Eaton Paul Meyer and wife
have returned home from Mt. Carmel. Mrs Eli
Tinsman of Shelbyve has been visiting her mother,
Mrs NJ j. Brown. for several days. Mrs. Jane
Neal was the guest of friends in Martinsvilie and
Casey last week Mrs. Laura Allison has gone to
Chanute. Kan. to visit the family CT her brother
Charles for month more Miss Cora Layman,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
Hanover Defeat. the wabash Eleven.

Quite q large number of persons gathered at Ath-
ietic Park yesterday afternoon to the champion
sAp football game between the elevens from Hano-
yer and Wabash colleges. The day clear but
ather cold and consequently the greater part Of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
ST. ,ToSeDfl.

Miss Bessie Dodson. of Ford county, Kansas, is
visiting friends here. = Mrs. Frank Stevenson, of
Oakland is guest of St Joe friends =. John
Wilson will teach the Hunt school in Starton town
ship. the coming winter .Charless Sims of Ne
Gently visited Dr. Sims in this town Miss Amelia
Keinge and mother returned recently from visit in
Indiana
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DIED.


GRIFFITH-Oct. %. 1887. 9:47 p M. at resi-
dence, No. 329 North New Jersey street, Judsor
Cady. of Mr.. and Mrs. Dewitt G. Griffith. aged
neral private.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-17

soldiers noticed that some wild bees had
selected an old dead tree as the deposit
tory for their honey. Away xp in the
top the little workers could be seen stor-
ing their sweets. The soldier looked upon
then with longing eyes. How to get the
honey was problem. A single blow with
an ak would be punished with death. One
day countryman came along and drew
rein near the bee tree.
He went into camp there and when he
started to build his fire one of the soldiers
said:
My friend. why don't you build your
nre up against that old dead trees"
Would anybody keers "he asked.
"Of course not"
Inc result was the countryman built
his ire against the dead tree and the tree
caught fire. When the countryman de-
parted next day he left the tree ablaze.
lt burned slow that day and gradually the
Dees were smoked out. With anxious and
impatient eyes the soldiers watched the
ire. About the middle of the third day
the old tree came down with a crash that
could be heard for mile. The soldiers
lit upon the honey like dogs upon e. lame
coon. When the excited officers reached
the scene they were informed that a
countryman had fired the tree. By that
time, however, the countrymsn was fifty
miles away
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-17

drawing his revolver and leveling it at
him shouted, sStop or I'll fre!" He was
then within thirty feet of the man, but
the fugitive paid no heed to either the
command or the threat, but boldly plung-
ed into the creek. The tide was running
up strong and was about half ebb. Wed-
ing and swimming the escaping man
made good Roadway and had reached the
opposite shore of the creek, near enough
to touch bottom, when he was seen to
throw up his hands and sink. The officers
in the meantime had gone in search
of small boat, but before they succeed
ed in procuring one the man had sunk
and his body was probably carried up
the stream. It was not recovered and
there is no clew TO the mans identity.
No one in the crowd recognized him, and
his Identification will probably not be
established until the body shall be found
and publicly exhibited. He was 80 years
old, tall, with heavy mustache, and wore a
black OvercOat.
The names of the girls upon whom the
assault was made is not known, as she
and her companion Immediately left the
scene when young Schiller came up.
Mayor Pratt inclines to the belief that
the drownded man was insane, and also
thinks that he was the same man who at
tempted like crime under somewhat
similar circumstances in the Seventh
ward.
Coroner Beale who was to-day notified
of the occurrence will employ men to
grapple for the body.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-17
A Cure for Corns Wanted.
New York Herald.

"Any man who wants to make a quick
and certain fortune" observed a Broad
way druggist the other day, ''can do it by
invensing a sure cure for corns. 1t
doesn't matter how maay there are,
there's room for one more. Corns are
a universal weakness of the American
people. There isn't day that do not
have calls for corn cures from anywhere
from so TO $50 men, women, girls and
boys"
as there any actual sure cure for
corns?" asked.
'That depends" said he. "There is
hardly remedy that would not remove
corns if the people who use it did not
wear shoes. The trouble is that while
they are doctoring the corn they are con-
tinuing the friction and pressure that
originally produced it. But, whether they
cure OF rot, the good remedies, if proper
ly applied. keep the corn from increasing
or hardening, and reduce its annoyance
to minimum. There are hundreds of peo-
pie who employ chiropodist by the year
at contract price, and it is his duty to
keep their corns pared down and their
feet in order. The corncures enable peo-
pie who can not afford this luxury TO care
for their own toes with little waste of
time or trouble
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-17
FARM NOTES.

Oats and corn mixed in equal weight
make good ration for fattening, es-
pecially young sheep.
Mr.. Pratt, of Brattleboro, VT, thinks
there is danger of feeding too much cot
ton seed to milk COWS. He feeds one
quart to each cow, but mixes it with four
times it's bulk of ground grain, and al
lows also {. bushel of ensilage twice each
day.
There is no better food for hogs and
poultry at this season than finely-cut
clover, moistened with boiling water over
which small proportion of middlings
have been sprinkled. The pigs will grow
we'll on it and the hens will lay more eggs
on such 81 diet.
A cheap end convenient disinfectant
for poultry houses may be prepared by
mixing one bushel of finely sifted dirt,
and one pound of chloride of lime If
fine tobacco dust be added it will assist in
preventing lice. The dirt SO prepared
may be busted over the floors or any por-
ton of the poultry house, and it will
greatly assist in keeping off disease and
vermin. The cost is but a trife.
The cow should always be MIXED until
the udder is completely emptied. 1t
should be stripped thoroughly. If this
be well done she will keep in flow eff milk
longer, but if neglected she will gradually
dry off. Many good COWS are premature
ly dried off from hurry in milking and
not doing the work thoroughly.
Foot rot in sheep arises principally
from pasturing the sheep on damp ground.
Wet pastures are not suitable for sheep.
It is much better to compel them to climb
steep hillsides and seek all their food than
to be compelled to remain on good pas
lures that are damp. A good, dry pas
ture, however, is better than either.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-17
Carrots and Celery.
Correspondence Country Gentleman.

Your correspondent, sc. A. says I do
not SOW my carrots quickly enough. ]
was comparing the methods of sowing by
hand and sowing by machinery. But l
dare say that in good, clean ground,
about twice the average could be sowed
in day that I have mentioned. My
ground was inevitably in bad condition
for drilling, necessitating frequent stops:
otherwise I think I should have come up
to G. AS standard for a days work.
Mr.. Howatt refers to the great expense
of thinning the carrots when sowed with
the drill. small hoe will do most of
the thinning, and the work is accomplish
ed with no extra labor at hoeing time.
Sowing by hand Will not entirely obvIate
hand thinning, SO think I will continue
sowing with the drill. Mr.. Howatt's
handling of carrots, etc., with cloth is a
remarkable good idea, and I wish he
would tell me whether celery, treated In
the same manner, would do WELL 1 think
there is danger, in starting celery in hot
beds, of killing it with too much heat;
and was thinking it might do excellent
ly sowed In the open air with the cloth.
coverlng-say in April. / want it for
winter use, and prefer not too rank
growth. I hope Mr.. Howatt will be of
use to me in growing celery better and
with more certainty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-17
Salads for Winter.
LONDON Garden n.

oHIoKoRY AND MUSTARD AND CREss.
With plenty of these no one need care
much whether they have many good let
tuces and endive at idwinter Or not, as
with chicory ana mustard and cress
salads of the very highest quality may be
made, and they can be easily grown in
quantity, let the weather be what 1t may.
Chicory is hardy, grows freely, and when
forced produces large quantity of deli
cate leaves. The seed should be sown an
nually in May in rows thinlY, and the
young plants soon produce satisfy like
roots without much attention. These are
taken up in November, placed almost as
close as they will stand in S-inch or 10
inch pots, with some ordinary soil round
them. We wheel few barrowloads of
fermenting material into dark shed,
plunge few pots into this, and in a fort
night or a little more the roots throw up
tall cluster of cream colored leaves of
the finest salad making quality possible.
A few potfuls are introduced into heat
now and then, and in this way there is
no difficulty in keeping up constant sue
cession. When wanted for use the crowns
are cut right through, and if the latter be
kept in heat after that. they will push out
side growths which will come in for use
afterward.
Mustard and cress as we all know, are
easily grown. Some time ago when
found patch in the shallow boxes, which
we use for producing them in winter, die
away here and there prematurely, and on
making an examination to ascertain the
cause, [ found that some parts of the
soil were very firm, and Others were loose
and it was in the latter the plants had
failed. After that 1 ceased to use old
soil of any kind to fill the boxes, and sub
stituted leaf-soil making it very firm all
over. I sewed the seed on the surface,
and did not cover it in any way, finally
placing it in a temperature of 60 >.
Here growth was rapid, and in 10 days
each box was an even mass of beautiful
mustard and cress. In leaf soil it grows
uncommonly well-better, indeed, than
In anything else we have tried, and uni
form frmness retains the whole in excel
lent condition. Our winter mustard and
cress boxes are those which we use for
bedding plants in spring. They are
inches deep, foot wide, and 2 feet 6
inches long. By sowing from two to four
of these weekly, regular and plentiful
supply is kept up, and if frost chances to
catch iettuces or endive they are not miss
ed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-17
Indigestion in Horses.
New York Times.

Horses suffer from mistakes in feed
ing more than any other farm animals
and are consequently more subject to in
digestion and its injurious results. Kill
ing Dy kindness is by no means unus ual
with horses. The alimentary and diges-
tive organs and their fun ctions in horses
are somewhat peculiar, and required to
be well studied that the feeding may be
based on rules laid down in accord an &c
with precise principles. 1t is impos ST BILE
for these rules to be precise in every par
ticular case, for horses differ very much
both in their habits of eating and in their
ability TO digest their food, and the prin-
ciples involved should therefore be known
and understood, when it will not be diff
hcult to adapt the feeding to the condi-
tions and requirem ents of each case.
The food must be of the right kind,
and it is quite safe to say that in general
horses are the worst fed of any of oar
domestic animals. The winter feeding
is usually hay, chiefly clover, or partly
clover and corn. These foods are too
rich and do not contain sufficient crude
fiber fill the stomach and BOWELS so
as to insure healthful action. The clover
is too heterogeneous and the corn is too
carbonaceous, and the effects of foods
are to exert too much certain organs,
which are thrown into disorder. The ex-
cessive nitrogen of the clover must pass
off through the kidneys or it remains in
the blood, causing various inhamatory
disorders, and the least that common
irritation which produces eruption of
the skin and ltchiness that induces the
animal to rub itself until the hair is re-
moved or the skin itself is removed. The
excessive carbon of the corn affects the
liver, and this in turn affects the ordinary
organs, or it disturbs the action of the
lungs and prevents the proper purifica-
ton of the blood. The common ultimate
results of these disorders is farcy, pur-
pura hemorrhagica or anasarca, and final.
~, no doubt, CHAMBERS is induced by poi
sonining of the blood. But these are all
ultimate and indirect consequences of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-17
A CHASE FOR LIFE.
The Strange Conductor Supposed Insane
Man.
Philadelphia Times.

Man.
Philadelphia Times
It seldom happens that the punishment
of an offender follows SO quickly the COM
mission of a crime as was the case in
Camden yeterday afternoon. Between 4
and 5 o'clock three half-grown girls, who
had left their homes to look at the mill
tary procession in connection with the
funeral of two members of the 9Th repi-
nent, were standing by the hedge sur
rounding the mansion of Hon. John F.
Starr, at the crossing of the Camden and
Atlanta railroad, when an unknown man
sprang upon them, knocked one of them
down, and attempted to commit an as
sault. The screams of the girls were
heard by William Shiller, of No. 1925
South Third street, and he approached
the spot from whence the outcry came.
AS he approached the rascal took to his
heels.
He had several hundred feet the start
of Schiller, but the latter was persistent
in the chase, and the two men ran over
the open lots for fully a mile. The vii
lain then attempted to enter the built-up
portion of the city and headed for Fed
eral street.
In the meantime Policeman Carter and
Weldy saw the lad in hot pursuit of the
man and joined the chase. This attract
ed others SO that the pursued man had to
alter his course and strike out again for
the open country. Some forty persons
were in full pursuit when he dashed pant
ing and breathlessly into the yard of
Morn Philips chemical works on the west
ern bank of Cooper's creek near the foot
of Linden street. In explanation of his
conduct the man said to the employees
that there had been big fight and that
crowd was after him. He then man
aged to conceal himself in the yard. A mo-
ment later the tive policemen came up
with the throng of excited pursuers with
them.
The nature of the fellows crime was by
this time fully known, and the cries for
revenge were distinctly heard by the con-
cealed man. Suddenly he started from
behind pile of waste and ran down to
the wharf of the creek. The policemen
quickly followed, and officer Carter,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-17
Sowing Seeds In Dry Weather

Peter Henderson writes In the American
Agriculturalist for February:
frequent source of complaint is the
fact of seeds failing to terminate during
long continued dry Weather, and it is
very important that the gardener should
always apply commOn-sense to his work,
and not simply follow routine, for what
will suit for one condition of soil or at
mosphere would be unnecessary, or even
wrong, for another. / will give case to
illustrate. About the fifth of May, 1871;
| sowed large patch of open ground
with celery seed, and another with cab
bage seed. The soil was in fine order,
and the beds, after sowing, were raked-
the celery with fine steel rake, and the
cabbage with large wooden rake, which
covered the seed of each to the regular
depth. The weather was dry with indica-
tions of its continuing SO, and after SOW
ing had both the cabbage and celery
beds rolled heavily, leaving, however, a
strip of each unrolled, SO that I coald
clearly show to some of my young men
what the result of this omission would be
if dry weather continued. Had heavy
rain fallen within day or two after SOW
ing, it would have campacted the soil and
produced the effect of rolling it. But
we had no rain for three or four weeks,
and burning hot atmosphere passing
through the shallow, loose covering of
the seeds, shIiveled and dried them up so
that it was impossible they could ever
terminate.
This little experiment resulted exactly
as anyone having experience in seed
growing knew it must; our crop of celery
and cabbage plants were as fine as need
be on the rolled bed, while not one seed
in thousand of the celery, and not one
in hundred of the cabbage, started
in the strips where the soil was left
loose.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-17
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN
AT THE MATINEE.
LIFE

A maiden fresh from Vassar was she,
Both learned an charmingly fair,
Who, by my side at the matinee.
Leaned back on an orchestra chair.
A critical mind she has. thought l.
AS together we watched the play;
So careful I'll be to catch each word
She shall at its ending say.
Her views will be wise and just, l said,
Both the good and the bad she'll see;
And she'll speak the truth. as lawyers do,
When not warped by retaining fee.
And so when the curtain downward rolled
From its nest far up overhead,
turned to her with quest'ning look,
And these were the words that she said:
"Now do It you think''-and she smiled as u
She rose in that orchestra stall,
THAT pa might buy me dress like that
To wear at the Patriarch's ball?"